SKIRT

(EDGE) [verb] [T; I + preposition] - to be on or move along the edge (of something)Take the road which skirts (around/round) the village, not the one which goes through it. [T; I + preposition]The car had to skirt (around/round) a large hole in the road. [T; I + preposition](figurative) She skirted (around/round) (= avoided) the question of what she had been doing the night before. [T; I + preposition]